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Hmm, yeah the ethno-state that is china has never done anything wrong, especially not to its own citizens.
What will a democratic government do to you?
Sure, but the people of china don't have much say. If they voice a critical opinion they're silenced, doesn't seem like they're allowed to choose.
I'm sure you've heard the Churchill quote: "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
You'd rather live under a dictatorship than in a democracy? That's an interesting opinion, not without its merit I'll admit. A benevolent dictator can be the most effective form of government, the problem is what happens after they're gone.
Ethnostate? I think you’re thinking of Israel. The idea of a “Han supremacist” state comes exclusively from Western propaganda, and the “Uyghur genocide” is a psyop[1][2][3].
More propaganda. By their own account, Chinese people feel they’re being heard by their government, much more so than Americans do. You can say whatever you like in the US because free speech here is like shouting at the wind.
Yet more propaganda. Meanwhile the US has never been democratic; it’s always been an oligarchy.
Propaganda can be overcome by developing real media literacy.
Good god, how did you become to confidently wrong?
Because they’ve never heard these things any other way, so